Waiting

I'm just drifting
 (uh huh)
 (yeah)
 Waiting for things
 Fill the forest toward the source waiting to attain grace
 Our paths diverge, but take us to the same place
 Cast skyward, weightless when the chains break
 Archetypal figures that shape-shift, that change face
 Storm the gates, hit the safe, get the cake
 While dog eats dog off a diner family dinner plate
 I'm in the clouds, in the crowd, in the visionscape
 In effect, any minute now Imma get it straight
 I've seen her face in my dreams since I was young
 A Beatrice, a queen, a mother that chides her son
 Then stumbled through his life when he couldn't find a hobby
 And lived on a cliffs edge like the Anasazi
 Saw my love walking down the street like a vision
 A symbol of a hidden world, show me what I'm missing
 (She smiled at him, but said nothing)
 Then disappeared around the corner while I put the poison in my bloodstream
 A child born in the briars and thorns
 That tried to silence sirens and horns in the eye of the storm
 The fire rages, the state calls her young to war
 Some will turn their hatred into something more
 And place guns on the floor
 Breathe deep, darkness retreats
 See my heart periodically, it's part of her mystique
 Hold the keys to the city where the shepherds lead the sheep
 And never ever ever get the mark of the beast
 I climbed the ladder then I fell again
 I had a whole wardrobe full of skeletons
 And old habits that arrested my development
 In the woods at the mercy of the elements
 Waiting for my love
 You seen her?
 I'm waiting for my love
 They tell me I'm a dreamer
 (Waiting for things)
 When they warn a village not to place trust
 In machines built to subjugate the universe in us
 The jungle's not safe after dusk
 I saw hyenas tear a man to pieces and turned away in disgust
 But some nights mother made me kill for my next meal
 My dreams seemed more alive, the world felt less real
 And in the full moon light, she looked beautiful
 A fresh blanket of snow, a garland of human skulls
 Her valleys and streams are my flesh, my veins
 Like birds in flight, a neuron's firin' in my right brain
 And words are weapons to sharp-shoot shots off
 In the dark of night and hit the mark with precise aim
 Lone pistolero too legit to cease
 Gain the kingdoms of the world, lose your inner peace
 Got no social skill but I can do this in my sleep
 Shaku stole the ocean and revealed the universe beneath
 I climbed the ladder then I fell again
 I had a whole wardrobe full of skeletons
 And old habits that arrested my development
 In the woods at the mercy of the elements
 Waiting for my love
 You seen her?
 I'm waiting for my love
 They tell me I'm a dreamer
 (Waiting for things)